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Alexander of Macedon, 356-323 B.C. : a historical biography

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Alexander of Macedon, 356-323 B.C. : a historical biography

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Green, Peter, 1924-

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Alexander, the Great, 356 B.C.-323 B.C, Alexander III, King of Macedonia, Alexandre, le Grand, 356-323 av. J.-C, Alexander III. Makedonien, König v356-v323, Alexandre III (roi de Macédoine, 0356-0323 av. J.-C.) -- Biographies, Alexander, the Great, 356-323 B.C, Alexander (Makedonien, König, III.), Generals -- Greece -- Biography, Généraux -- Grèce -- Biographies, Rois et souverains -- Grèce -- Biographies, Rois et souverains -- Macédoine -- Biographies, Generals, Kings and rulers, Biografie, Generals -- Biography, Kings, queens, rulers, etc. -- Biography, Greece -- History -- Macedonian Expansion, 359-323 B.C, Greece -- Kings and rulers -- Biography, Grèce -- Histoire -- 359-323 av. J.-C. (Expansion de la Macédoine), Greece, Grèce -- 359-323 av. J.-C. (Expansion de la Macédoine), Greece -- History, Rulers, Macedonia (Greece)
Publisher
Berkeley : University of California Press
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Kahle/Austin Foundation
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Internet Archive
Language
English
xxxvii, 617 pages : 22 cm

This biography portrays Alexander as both a complex personality and a single-minded general, a man capable of such diverse expediencies as patricide or the massacre of civilians. Writing for the general reader, the author provides gritty details on Alexander's darker side while providing a gripping tale of Alexander's career

"Revised and enlarged"--Title page verso

Originally published: Alexander the Great. London : Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1970

Includes bibliographical references (pages 569-585) and index

Philip of Macedon -- The garden of Midas -- From a view to a death -- The keys of the kingdom -- The captain-general -- The road to Issus -- Intimations of immortality -- The Lord of Asia -- The quest for ocean -- How many miles to Babylon? -- Propaganda at the Granicus
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Green, Peter, 1924- Alexander the Great
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COL-658
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